E Hinton shows the many differences and contrasts between the Greasers and the Soc's, However throughout The Outsiders Pony Boy realizes the two social groups aren't that different, and are similar in more ways than he thought …show more content…
While both groups deal with certain things in similarly outrageous fashions, they handle other things a great deal differently. In most situations the Greasers are quite a bit more emotional with the way they deal with certain conflict, which is quite different from the way the Soc's Handle conflict. The Soc's have to learn to shut off their emotions and maintain a cool, mean exterior for fear of their fellow Soc's thinking they've turned soft. When Randy is talking to Pony Boy about his best friend Bob he starts to get emotional telling Pony Boy stories about his best friend, he then tells Pony Boy that if his other Soc friends ever saw or heard him talking like that they'd think he'd "gone soft" and they'd look down on him. The Greasers also have to look very tough but it's no secret they're more emotional when it comes to certain situations. While on the outside they're mostly different in this aspect in actuality they're all the same, they have the same emotions. It's just that the Soc's care so much about about what people think of them and they feel like they have to live up to that "perfect" view everyone has of them. Them trying to live up to this expectation being held above them is very difficult and causes much